Click the header above to explore the change in fossil fuel and low-carbon energy consumption and the change in greenhouse gas emissions around the world with an interactable globe. Which country is making the biggest changes?
Spin the globe, zoom, pan, and limit the shown countries on the model below to get an idea of the trends in consumption and emission across the world. Use the play and stop button to play an animation of the change over the years or select a specific year of interest manually with the sliders.
Energy types that require high emission of greenhouse gases to produce such as coal, oil and gas energy fall under a category of fossil fuels and are labeled climate negative.
Energy types that require low emission of greenhouse gases to produce such as wind, solar, hydro, or nuclear energy fall under a category of low-carbon energy sources and are labelled climate neutral.
By modelling the rate of change of each type energy consumption we can get an idea of how much change is occuring in a country towards decreased emissions.
Areas left un-colored and grey did not have recorded data on consumption of these energy types.
The largest magnitude changes in climate negative and climate neutral energy occur in the most recent years: 2019 and 2020 indicating that countries are making bigger and bigger changes to reach the Paris Agreement goal as the years go on. In the plot above Venezuela, for instance, sees a 30% decrease in climate negative energy consumption from 2018 to 2019. Rather interestingly their neighbor Columbia shows an opposite trend with a 5% increase in climate negative energy consumption.
There is a great amount of variance in the change of climate neutral energy consumption. Some countries are using much less climate neutral energy and some countries like Oman in 2020 are making huge changes toward climate neutral energy consumption.
Visualizing the trend of greenhouse gases over the years the emissions seem to fluctuate quite a bit. This may be a result of natural variance or indicate the direction a country is moving toward. It is ultimately difficult to say with a short time span to make such changes. Changes to types of energy produced and consumed take years to make. Over the years the trend will become more clear but now we can take a look at the current trend and get initial impressions.